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Suffix (disambiguation)

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A suffix is part of a word; an affix that follows the morphemes to which it can attach.

  • Possessive suffix, a suffix used in word formation for creation of various possessive forms

Suffix may also refer to:

  • Suffix (name), the style at the end of a person's name which gives additional identifying information about the person
  • Suffix (computer science), the last part of a string of characters
  • Suffix notation, a notation for manipulating vector quantities, also known as index notation
  • Suffix array, an array of integers giving the starting positions of suffixes of a string in lexicographical order
  • Suffix tree, a data structure that presents the suffixes of a given string in a way that allows for a particularly fast implementation of many important string operations

See also